2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand made her second campaign stop in Ames Friday.

The junior New York Senator arrived in an SUV along with several campaign staff members. She answered questions from a woman who spoke with her in Mandarin before delivering an abbreviated stump speech outside the Stomping Grounds and answering questions from the audience.

“I love Kirsten Gillibrand,” said Jimmie Bragdon College Democrats events chair and senior in industrial engineering. “I thought she was really good. I appreciate her stance on healthcare, I like how she’s going for a long-term vision for single-payer [healthcare] but also recognizes it can’t be a snap thing.”

Bragdon asked Gillibrand about the high deductibles many Americans face when purchasing health insurance.

“I really believe that the best way to bring the cost of healthcare down and to make it more accessible to more people is to let anyone buy into medicare at a price they can afford, something like 4 percent of your income,” Gillibrand said. “If people could buy in at 4 percent of their income over time, and given a chance — they’re going to choose it, because it’s cheaper and higher quality than what they’re paying today.”

In a press gaggle after the event, Gillibrand was asked what she would do to alleviate student loan debt.

“First, if anybody has federal student debt today, I would refinance it all at the lowest debt rate available, right now that’s about 4 percent, so I would automatically refinance all federal debt and that puts about $15 billion right into the economy, so it’s a huge, huge economic engine,” Gillibrand said. “Second, any kid who wants to go to college debt free — you could say if you do a year of public service you can get two years of community college or state school free, if you do two years of public service you get four years free.”

In her stump speech, Gillibrand touched on several progressive themes, saying she will not be taking corporate money and she does not have a Super PAC.

Gillibrand also said she supports a green new deal and said former Georgia Democratic party gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams would have won her election without voter disenfranchisement. Abrams fell just over 0.2 percent short of a runoff election in her November 2018 election.

Sarah Meisch, a senior in political science, asked Gillibrand about the Mueller report, and what steps she thought Congress should take in the aftermath of its publication.

“Well the most important one is the one [House Judiciary Committee Chairman] Jerry Nadler took today, which was to subpoena the full Mueller report unredacted,” Gillibrand said. “The Congress, and the American people in my opinion have a right to know what’s in that report fully, and if there is material that needs to be redacted because it’s grand jury material and legally has to be redacted there’s no reason why at least Congress can’t see it.”

After her question and answer session, Gillibrand arm-wrestled Olivia Habinck, President of College and Young Democrats of Iowa. The senator won the match-up after nearly a minute-long back and forth.